Talon: translating early dominance into later pressure, and we he cant do it

talon now accounts for 25 percent of all first bloods. you'd think that that would make him super busted right? well, he sits at a 51 percent winrate in korea right now, so hes actually pretty balanced. the reason for this is that talons early damage is all focused in his passive and his q base damage. both of which dont scale very well, so as he falls off he becomes a literal glass cannon, not a fragile damage dealer, but something that kills itself every time it tries to do damage.

he has only selective mobility, a short ranged targeted enemy champions only gapcloser, and a wall hop. this means he has little outplay potential other than his ult stealth. so hes super vulnrabe to straight line cc, something that alot of people have, and i mean A LOT. and since hes so squishy he usually just blows up if its more than one person near his target